title: Feeling like a minority--being a male student nurse.
abstract: This short paper seeks to point out some of the real personal and professional issues of being a male student nurse (a minority group) within a female-dominated profession. Tom (a student nurse) shares some of his experiences of carrying out his mother and baby placement. The pre-placement anxiety is touched on, alongside the actual personal and professional impact of being present at a birth is discussed.
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009727:Nurses, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D012938:Social Perception; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*